Clark wants EFCC boss sacked over Ibori's money


Clark wants EFCC boss sacked over Ibori's money
Published on Thursday, 1st November, 2012 by pmnews
Nnamdi Felix /Abuja
The war of words raging between Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, EFCC, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde and elder statesman and leader of the Niger Delta, Chief Edwin Clark, over the controversial $15 million bribe money offered by former governor of Nigeria’s oil rich Delta state to former chairman of the EFCC, Nuhu Ribadu, continued Thursday as the elder statesman restated his call for the sack of Lamorde from the agency.

In a media briefing at his Abuja home, Chief Clark blasted the EFCC chairman over his application before a Federal High Court siting in Abuja asking that Clark, be summoned before the court for making prejudicial statements over ongoing proceedings in the alleged bribe money still at the custody of the Central Bank of Nigeria.

The anti graft agency had approached the court seeking for the forfeiture of the money to the federal government. Soon after the court commenced proceeding in the matter, different camps besieged the court laying claims to the money, including the Delta state government and a self acclaimed oil magnate who had since withdrawn his claims.

The elder statesman who was irked by contradictory depositions by the anti graft agency over the source of the alleged bribe money, berated the agency and Lamorde and called for the restructuring of the agency as well as the sack of Lamorde over his roles in bribery sage.

“I am further alarmed why there should be two contradictory depositions by the EFCC when Bello Yahaya, a senior Superintendent of police with the EFCC, first in 2007 in suit no FHC/FD/81C/2007, swore to an affidavit that James Ibori made attempt to bribe them with $15 million in question but made a turnaround in 2012 in suit no FHC/ABJ/CS/415/2012 to state that he had the consent and authority of the EFCC Chairman, Mr. Ibrahim Lamorde, to swear to a contrary affidavit ‘ that I know as fact that the said $15 million is an unclaimed property and no one has claimed or shown any link to the sum” Chief Clark pointed out in a release issued at the briefing.

He further stated that there must be a limit to official deception and found it unacceptable that the very institution set up to fight these social vices headed by Lamorde is now championing falsehood. “In the light of this, I demand an immediate restructuring of EFCC so as not to make the international community view our anti corruption agencies as ineffective, having displayed such double standards as in the James Ibori saga”.

Chief Clark further called for thorough investigation into these alleged abhorrent roles of the anti graft agency and its agents and those found wanting, be charged to court to act as a deterrent to others, so as to restore Nigeria’s credibility before the international community and support President Jonathan’s crusade against corruption.

He also praised the courage of the court presided by Justice Gabriel Kolawole for refusing to take any action against one who is not before it or a party in the suit.

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